Other Sleeping Disorders

Nightmare Disorder

Nightmares are disturbing,
visual dream sequences that occur in your mind and wake you up from your
sleep. Not awakening from these vivid
often disturbing dreams are not considered nightmares but simply bad
dreams. Nightmares disturb your sleeping
pattern. Nightmare disorder is described
as having nightmares on a frequent basis.
Those with nightmare disorder are often afraid to go to sleep.

Teeth Grinding (Bruxism)

Most people in their
lifetime will experience an episode of Bruxism.
Most cases are very mild and will not need to be treated. However, for some the teeth grinding can
become excessive and cause damage to the teeth, jaw, nerves or muscles as well
as disturbing your sleep (although you may not be aware of the
disturbance).

Sleepwalking

Sleepwalking often occurs in
people with a family history of sleepwalking.
A common misconception is that the person is acting out their dreams;
however, the stage of sleep that the sleepwalking occurs in is not associated
with dreaming. People that sleepwalk are
often found wandering the house performing day to day tasks (going to the
bathroom, cooking, eating, and in rare cases driving). Most of these tasks are preformed clumsily
and often while roaming their house bump into multiple objects or attempt to
walk through glass doors or screens. The
person when awakened can become violent and confused often unaware of how they
got out of bed. Most sleepwalking
incidents occur within 15 min but have been known to last up to an hour.

REM Behavior Disorder (RBD)

Unlike sleepwalking, this
occurs during the dream period and people experiencing RBD will, in most cases,
remember what they were dreaming about at the time of awakening. People will act out the dreams they are
currently experiencing whether it’s fighting off intruders, monsters, etc. or simply
having a conversation. This may not
occur every night. In some cases the episodes are so violent that people take
to strapping themselves in bed as to not hurt themselves or others.